text: Gerasimos Kambites M.D. FRCPC, ordained by then Archbishop Vitaly of The Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia on Sunday of the Prodigal Son, 1983, in the presence of the myrrh streaming Icon of the Mother of God, known as "The Keeper of the Portal. Then married to Sarah Mukebezi Sempa of Uganda, they and their three children moved to Bukasa Island Uganda in March of 1983, to establish a Medical Clinic, a school and the "Annunciation Orthodox Church," of Uganda. Dr.Kambites wrote an article for National Geographic Magazine which had been published in July of 1980. This article led to the formation of the Bukasa Island Community Development Project which was an NGO. They arrived in Uganda as civil war erupted and through many trials and tribulations lived for five years in Lake Victoria's Sesse islands. In 1988, then Father Gerasimos, was arrested and held captive for ten days by a rogue colonel of the National Resistance Army (NRA) under President Yoweri Museveni. His family was also arrested and experienced terror at the hands the the military criminals. Fr.Gerasimos,released from prison on March 3, 1988 with the help of the American Ambassador and the International Red Cross to Uganda and was then deported to Kenya. His family followed six days later. The duties of the Church in Uganda were given to Matushka Sarah's brother who was ordained in the fall of 1988 by Metropolitan Vitaly. Fr. Christopher Walusimbi managed to complete the stone Church, provide food and sustenance for orphans Thanks to the generosity of the National Geographic Society, they were given funds and air transportation out of Uganda. Upon their return to Canada, father Gerasimos established, with the blessing of Metropolitan Vitaly, the Church of St. Xenia in Ottawa. When it became apparent that the establishment of the new missionary parish had taken more than seventy parishoners from Ottawa's Millenium Cathedral, Fr. Gerasimos was suspended by ROCOR until eventually the new parish was allowed to grow. Metropolitan Vitaly said, "No good shall come of this." By 1994, the Priestly marriage of Father Gerasimos and Matushka Sarah dissolved. Fr Gerasimos was returned to the laity in 1996, and practises Orthodox Psychiatry in Canada.


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|Aug 19th, 2009 08:14 PM
|Aug 16th, 2009 08:57 PM
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|I don't know, is Chun Li a detective?
|Aug 16th, 2009 08:34 PM
|well, at least he's a good at spelling
|Aug 16th, 2009 06:41 PM
|Dr. Boogie
|Aug 16th, 2009 11:27 AM
|Am I in the minority who thinks that Booth Babes should exhibit intelligence more than mere beauty as their sole worth? I mean, who knows how smart Chun Li is, she's a detective, for example. Anyway, maybe I'm just rambling because the glasses on Bayonetta make her look more intelligent.
|Jun 16th, 2009 01:50 AM
|Yeah, that's true, but I'll never truly understand the whole thing.
|Jun 15th, 2009 12:50 PM
|Dr. Boogie
|They get people to take pictures, so if you put the name of your game on their top, that's one way to get people to at least mention the name of your game.
|Jun 14th, 2009 05:15 PM
So am I the only one who thinks Booth Babes is a really bad idea? They have nothing to do with video games. I don't know, that's always just annoyed me. I mean I know sex sells, but come on.
Then again, we live in a world where they use sex to sell chewing gum and deodorant.
Great article though.
|Jun 11th, 2009 02:27 AM
Compare that to SOTN (I can't find a FAQ that states all the different paths you could take but it's a lot (I should know. I've beaten that game several times) and I think you'll see (at least from my point of view) how different their Castle's are.
On a related sidenote: I actually like the castle better that way. Since you have all the major abilites and glyphs by the time you get there (minus Paries) you truly get to enjoy the castle since you don't have to think about backtracking.
I do think I need to mention another thing that may get someone (not necessarily you) to like Castlevania over Metroid (despite my complaints they are basically the same type of game): Atmosphere. The Metroid games are based on alien planets while the Castlevania games are based in a Castle and thus have enviroments that with stone/metal/cement walls and hard, stone/cement/metal floors (generally. There are special areas like the underground). I guess what I'm saying is that the sights are definitely something that might twist a gamers opinion to one series over another (do you enjoy the alien sights of Metroid or the (fantastically) realistic Earth sites of the Castlevania games?)
|Jun 10th, 2009 03:15 AM
|Dr. Boogie
|It looked to me like the Batmobile was a lot more gray than it was in the movies. I guess because it's getting so old.
|Jun 10th, 2009 12:08 AM
The Ghostbusters stuff (especially the Ecto-1) left me short of breath. Really. o_o
Plus the Batmobile? If there had somehow also been a time-traveling DeLorean too, all three of my favourite vehicles of all time would be in one spot. I probably would've had a heart attack.
|Jun 9th, 2009 07:55 PM
|Dr. Boogie
Also, to do it manually, just put "quote" in brackets without the quotation marks before a section you want to quote, and "/quote" at the end to put the whole thing in one box.
Anyway, it sounds like you just prefer the old school Castlevania games to the new ones. I think there's definitely something to be had there; the new formula may have helped revitalize the series, but it was ultimately the original games that got people interested in the first place. I would much rather see IGA experimenting with new titles built in the style of SCIV rather than his most recent efforts. He did that a little with The Dracula X Chronicles, but there's definitely room for improvement in the field of whip control.
Also, you talked about the Dracula's Castle section of OoE being "practically no exploring" and having a more level-based feel to it. That particular area was almost identical in execution as the castle in SotN: a semi-linear path with some opportunities for exploration, limited by what abilities/glyphs the player has.
Furthermore, I'd go as far as to say that the same is true of Super Metroid: there's some exploration, but only until you get to a grappling point, or a room that's too hot, or an underwater area, or the like. At the end of the day, you still had the tackle the bosses in a set order to get what you needed to go where you needed to go. And as you said, that same sort of formula can be seen in Demon's Crest, albeit broken up into actual stages with a world map serving as a hub.
Personally, I feel the exact opposite about the two series. I loved SotN, and I really enjoyed Super Metroid, but that series just didn't do it for me the same way Castlevania did using the same gameplay formula. If I had to pick one element that made that decision for me, apart from Castlevania nostalgia, it would be that the exploration of different areas in the Metroid games never seemed to lead to any really remarkable discoveries.
In SotN, you could break open a niche in a wall and find some food, or you might find a cool new weapon/armor that does something really unique, like summon a group of soldiers to defend you or create money out of thin air. Heck, you might even discover a whole new area that holds a heretofore unseen powerup that lets you take the story in another direction. It was that variety of stuff that made it so interesting.
In the Metroid games, on the other hand, you could fire at walls and such to find hidden powerups, but they would be either energy tanks or powerups that increase your special weapon capacity. You did get new weapons as the game progressed, but there wasn't really any opportunity for customization, i.e. killing a metroid always requires a freeze ray and missiles.
In any case, a sequel to Demon's Crest is long overdue. At this point, Capcom could even do what they did with Bionic Commando, and have a remake of the game followed by a 3D sequel. I know I'd buy it.
|Jun 9th, 2009 12:42 AM
Dr. Boogie: I don't know how to quote so I'll quickly reference.
Muramasa: By fanciful I meant storybook-like (which the game suggests since it's a story being read by a little girl (I think? I didn't make it past halfway of the bunny guy). By "Dark and Gritty" I meant your average FPS with a TOTALLY DARK AND GRITTY STORYLINE SINCE THAT'S WHAT TEENAGE BOYS THINK IS MATURE GRRRR!!.
Gothic: I don't know why I wrote that. I regretted it since I put it down.
Whip: Yeah, but it's never been as good as in Super Castlevania. That game had the best control scheme in the entire series. The whip could be spun, dragged for a shield, and, best of all, it could be used in all eight directions. I don't know why they gave that up. They had figured out to separate the sub-weapon (there are six main buttons on the SNES pad so somebody realized that there was no reason to keep the sub-weapon on Up + Attack anymore (they only did it on the NES since it only had two buttons (not counting Start and Select) only to get rid of it again for no reason.
Oh! This post hasn't actually addressed the whip comment and instead turned to praising Super Castlevania.
I don't like the later whip games (or non-whip) since they feel so stiff (battle-wise) compared to the greatness of Super Castlevania. It's one of the reasons I like OOE. The Beam Glyph feels like I've gotten back my precious whip in some way (even if still not as awesome as Super Castlevania). It feels the closest to combining the battle style of Super (and a little Bloodlines/Rondo of Blood) with the movement of the IGA games.
IGA: Oops. I meant that it's the only game that he directed (apparently produced) that I like as a game (Must have lost a few words there). I do have a soft spot for the guy. His games are really good at setting an atmosphere. As games they fail to work for me. There is so many bad backtracking, easy enemies, bad placement of said enemies (Ex: Why are there plants in the library in SOTN?), and confusing systems (the souls were a nice idea but they aren't as good as plain old sub-weapons plus it made people do this: http://castlevaniasoul.ytmnd.com/) that I can't take it.
On an unfair note, I think the Castlevania games aren't as good as the Metroid games at that style of gameplay, probably due to their lack of polish. The only exception is OOE and that's because it isn't really a Metroidvania game. The first 2/3 of the game are basically levels ( the exploring is fairly light) and Dracula's Castle is practically level-based (there is very little exploring. It looks explorable but in actuality it is a series of levels with no map screen change. You do it in this order (using the bosses as the order name): Wallman, BlackMore, Death or Eligor, Dracula. It's structure is actually more Demon's Crest (Capcom will never make a 2, will they?) than Metroid.
Alphabet on Manliness: No offense to Maddox, but Dawn of Sorrow was also on that list and that game is boring. As for SOTN it doesn't really deserve it's place in gaming history. It's a nice experience but it isn't as good a game as Super Metroid (not surprising, since IGA only made SOTN that way since he missed Metroid). It does a worse job than Metroid in nearly every way.
|Jun 8th, 2009 08:32 PM
|Dr. Boogie
Also, you have that backwards: SotN is the only game IGA directed. The ones since he's just produced. And SotN is great. It's in the Alphabet of Manliness, for crying out loud.
|Jun 7th, 2009 09:49 PM
|New Super Mario Bros. Wii is going to be the best thing ever.
|Jun 7th, 2009 06:16 PM
|Man, Rei better watch out, RoG is the Pimp of the Pickle-Hat. Obviously, if you want coverage at any future Comic-Cons, you need RoG as your "booth babe". :P
|Jun 7th, 2009 03:11 PM
|The only interesting game i see here is Bayonetta.
|Jun 7th, 2009 10:23 AM
My roommate ordered a copy of Demon's Souls from Asia because the Asian versions of the game are actually in English, and it didn't look like it would ever be released here. Two days after it arrived, they announced that it would be released in the US. I've watched him play, and it looks really fucking hard and all the environments kind of look the same after a while.
Can't wait for the Batman game though. And Ghostbusters. :O
|Jun 6th, 2009 10:18 PM
|Hurm. I think ill have to start wearing a pickle hat and goggles...
|Jun 6th, 2009 09:35 PM
Nice write-up. Here are my thoughts on what I've seen:
Muramasa- I really appreciate what Vanillaware is trying to do. Their sprites are so absolutely stunning it makes you wish 3D had never been invented. Their stories have a fanciful style to them that makes you wish for the days when every game didn't need to be "Dark and Gritty" (can't anything be gritty without being dark and vise-versa). Still, I don't like the way the games play. Odin Sphere, for all it's charm, is a soul-crushingly repetitive experience that I couldn't beat it. Muramasa sadly looks the same.
What these guys need to do is make the graphics for other games. Their games are prettier to look at than play. They need to team up with a good game studio and make the graphics for them, similar to how Team Ninja is making the graphics for Metroid: Other M.
M:OM- Speaking of this one, I'm unsure. I'm not against a beat-em-up Metroid but the trailer looks so uninspired. I can't be the only one who sees Metroid Gaiden. If I want to play Ninja Gaiden I can pick it up, I don't need Metroid to turn itself into it. Still, it's very early in the games life span so I can't really dislike it. File me under worried.
P.S. I am partially disappointed that it isn't Metroid Dread (V) that was announced. I guess I'm holding that against M:OM. Slightly.
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories- I'm hopeful for this one. The "no-attacking" is a risk but it might actually imbue the series with horror again. Plus, I never played the original Silent Hill (though I did see a play-through of it) so if nothing else I get to experience the first game in the series.
Bayonetta- This looks freaking awesome! It's like Devil May Cry 1/3's sense of humor and gameplay bumped to obscene levels. Bayonetta really is a female Dante. Not just because of her taunts or the game she is appearing in but because, like Dante, she is an over-the-top satirazation of action movie hero's. Seriously, these games are what Shoot-Em-Up would be if it was a game.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow- MOTHER-FREAKING PATRICK STEWART!! How the hell did they get him for this!? More than anything else that is a good sign that this game will be good.
On a more serious note, I do like the games focus on blatant Gothic tones. That's been missing from the series since SOTN and it's nice to see it represented again.
I like that the main hero is a MANLY MAN rather than the bishoshen Final Fantasy boys we've had to deal with on the most recent installments.
The whip doesn't get used enough on the series. Except for Order of Eccleasia, I've never loved a Castlevania game that doesn't have the whip. I see it as what separates Castlevania from other games.
Kojima is a great producer so I want to give him a chance. It's certainly better than allowing IGA to make another boring clone of SOTN.
P.S. IGA is so overrated. That guy is great at making these nice little experiences. At making actual games is where he fails. OOE is the only good game he directed (even SOTN isn't that good) because he put some balls in it.
New Super Mario Bros. Wii- I kinda don't like the first one. It's a decently made platformer but it lacks the fantastic level designs of the previous 2D games. The physics seem out of whack (Mario doesn't control nearly as smootly as he does in other games). For my money, Super Mario Galaxy feels more like a true Mario game that NSMB does (and I'm not even talking about the 2D sections). NSMB doesn't have the adventurous spirit and charm of it's predecessors. It feels like a bland repeat.
Umm... That relates to NSMBW because it doesn't look like much has changed.
Super Mario Galaxy 2- AMMMMMMAAAAZZZIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNGGGGG!!!
|Jun 6th, 2009 07:22 PM
|Dr. Boogie
|Jun 6th, 2009 01:46 PM
Hmm its funny but Bayoneta has a striking resemblance to a certain senator we got to know last year.
Rog with two hot nurses yet no Ms. Diagnosis? What's up with that?
|Jun 6th, 2009 01:33 PM
|Why are girls always attracted to pickles?
|Jun 6th, 2009 11:45 AM
|Bayonetta Babe's head looks too small for her body.
|Jun 6th, 2009 10:22 AM
|As always the pictures made me feel like I was there. Good job!
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This is the story of a nation going through a nervous breakdown, pulling through, but paying the price. It's about a people lost and found, about their search for meaning.
Excerpted from the Preface and Chapter One of Lost and Found in Russia: Lives in a Post-Soviet Landscape by Susan Richards. Copyright © 2009 Susan Richards. Reprinted with permission of Other Press. First published in the United States December 2010. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
This book grew out of my visits to a small, apparently unremarkable town. It begins when Russians were in shock, after the fall of communism. It ends when the country, flush with petro-dollars and resurgent pride, is succumbing to global recession. It is the story of a nation going through a nervous breakdown, pulling through, but paying the price. It is about a people lost and found, about their search for meaning.
The vast stage of provincial Russia where the book is set barely connects to the world of Moscow and Petersburg. Its strangeness offers an explanation as to why we in the West are often baffled by Russia.
The friends I made in that small provincial town are the back-bone of this book. For better and worse, their lives mirror Russia's fortunes in its transition from chaos to order. I have tried to capture their experience. But I have come to accept that it is in the nature of the relationship between our cultures that they will think I have failed.
Anna, the tomboy, was born on the same date as me. On the surface we do not appear to have much in common, though in some obscure way we recognized that our lives are connected. Once, my friendship may have offered her support, but now things have changed so much that it runs the risk of damaging her. When we met, she was ready to sacrifice her life to build a free and democratic Russia. Today, she has found refuge in Russia's resurgent Church.
Author: Susan Richards
Publisher: Other Press
Publication date: 2010-12
Format: Paperback
Length: 320 pages
Price: $15.95
Affiliate: http://www.otherpress.com/ (Other Press)
Image: http://images.popmatters.com/news_art/l/lfinrussia-cvr.jpgCurly-haired, irrepressible Natasha was endowed at birth with privilege and talent. Following her rainbow had led her to that obscure country town. To the locals, she and her dashing husband, Igor, seemed every bit as exotic as I did, as a foreigner. Our otherness made us objects of suspicion.
The pale beauty Tatiana, with her innate wisdom, was the peacemaker in the volatile group. Back then, her husband, Misha, was one of millions of ants struggling to make the chaos work for them, fetching and carrying, dodging the heel of the law. Now, he is Mikhail Ivanovich, an important manufacturer. He and Tatiana may take their holidays in Provence, but when I look into Tatiana's gray eyes I am afraid for her.
Hope brought us together. The year was 1992, and the euphoria of the Gorbachev period had evaporated. The story behind our hopefulness goes back two centuries, to when Catherine the Great became empress of Russia. A German princess, she dreamed of building an island of European values on the wild eastern frontier of her empire. Her people posted advertisements in Germany, promising fertile land, housing, and livestock to anyone who was prepared to settle there. Thousands responded. For a year they traveled east, then sailed down the Volga River. When they arrived they found nothing to match the promises. They were left in the wild steppe, a prey to vengeful Tartar horsemen.
Russian history seems to move in circles. Fast forward two centuries, to 1988 and the final days of communism. Again a Russian government was promising the descendants of those original German settlers that they could settle the same piece of land—since when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union the entire community was deported, lest they collaborate. After the war, for decades they lived in exile in remote parts of Siberia and central Asia, accused of a crime they did not commit. Finally, almost fifty years later, Gorbachev's government agreed to give them back their original homeland, by way of making amends. What is more, the German government was offering the homeland money, in the hope that this might deter Russia's Germans from moving back to Germany, as was their right.
This was what attracted Natasha and Igor to move there from the Caucasus, Catherine the Great's original dream of building an island of European values on the steppe, with German investment. It drew me there, too. We were all desperate for reasons to be hopeful. Even if the rest of Russia was paralyzed, I longed to find one small piece of countryside where people would be busy building the microcosm of a Russia worth living in.
But instead of a buzz of activity, I found a place embalmed in sullen silence. What had happened? No one would tell me. In fact, hardly anyone would talk to me at all; and yet it was that wall of silence that drew me back there over several years. It seemed to me that if I could understand, really understand, what was going on in the fog of confusion hanging over one small place, the larger picture of Russia in that confused time might become more comprehensible.
From there, I slipped through a crack in the wardrobe, into another Russia.
On the borders of early maps you sometimes find blank places where the mapmaker's information peters out. Sometimes these are decked out with pictures of dragons and fabulous monsters, the creatures of travelers' tales. That was where I was traveling during Russia's lost years, way off the map of my known world. In the course of my journeys, President Boris Yeltsin sank deeper into a stupor, the oligarchs squabbled over Russia's wealth, miners went unpaid, and teachers fainted from hunger in front of their pupils.
The agony of transition was throwing up strange manifestations that defied my plodding, Western rationality. While I could not share these collective visions of shining beings and visitors from distant planets, nor could I dismiss them—too many people were seeing them, and their roots in the culture ran too deep. It took me a long time to accept that perhaps I had just ventured into a place where reality was different.
In these places off the map of my world I met another face of Russia, too, one where time had almost stopped, under the carapace of communism. There, choreographers, KGB colonels, and other urban refugees were happily building their New Jerusalem in Siberia, as sectarians have done for centuries.
But it was deep in the forest that I found myself face-to-face with the heart of whatever it is that makes the Russian people different. I found it hundreds of miles from the nearest road or railway, in a community vigorously pursuing the dream of a Russia which had never opened up to the West.
Older still was the tradition of paganism which, having survived ten centuries of persecution, had bubbled to the surface in parts of the countryside in that in-between time. There, I met the witch of Russia's fairy tales, who was busy healing victims of the upheaval.
The hardest parts of this journey began when I tried to write about my experiences. That brought me up against the limits of my own language. How wise Wittgenstein was when he concluded that there were some things about which we should stay silent. But having once embarked on this book, I did not have that luxury.
I have never managed to reconcile the reality of my world with that of this other Russia. But now, I would not want to.
From the start of my journey, there were hints of stranger things to come.
Author's note: I have changed the names of one regional business and some regional newspapers to protect the privacy of my characters.


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Many Hands CD Release Concert at Look Park
Florence, MA
Sunday, September 26th, 2010 @ 1pm-6:30pm
On stage at the Pine Theater at Look Park, a CD release concert for the star-studded family music CD, Many Hands, will take place the afternoon of September 26th, 2010.
Hilltown Families and local record label Spare the Rock Records have partnered up to offer two lucky families a 4-pack of free tickets to see the show. Scheduled performers include:
- Dan Zanes
- Elizabeth Mitchell & Family
- Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem
- Secret Agent 23 Skidoo
- Tony Vacca
- Grenadilla
- The Deedle Deedle Dees
Deadline to enter to win is September 22nd at 7pm (EST). Details on how to enter to win are below.
With a national release this summer, Many Hands: Family Music for Haiti is the first release from the new local record label, Spare the Rock Records. This unique collection of songs is filled with uplifting messages from some of today's very best family musicians, including: Emily Curtis, Rani Arbo and daisy mayhem, Bonga and the Vodou Drums of Haiti, Dan Zanes, Recess Monkey, Dog on Fleas, Elizabeth Mitchell, Caspar Babypants, Secret Agent 23 Skidoo, Jonathan Coulton, They Might Be Giants, Lunch Money, Gustafer Yellowgold, Pete Seeger, Dean Jones , Grenadilla, Baby Gramps, Randy Kaplan, The Deedle Deedle Dees, Uncle Rock, Frances England and Jerrice Baptiste.
Read more about this terrific CD here: Locally Produced Family CD to Benefit Haiti.
On Saturday, September 26th, this afternoon of music at the classic Pines Theater in Look Park will celebrate the release of a star-studded family music CD, Many Hands. Net proceeds will be donated to the Haitian People's Support Project. Scheduled performers are listed above. This event is general admission. The park will charge regular admission to get into the park; parking season passes will be accepted, and park admission is free if you bike or walk. (Hint: bike!) Outside food will be allowed, but outside alcohol is not permitted. Coolers are not allowed. Your bags will be searched. Food and drink will be available from great local vendors. Pets are not allowed at any events at the Pines.
Your chance to win a family 4-pack of tickets to the Many Hands CD release concert at the Pines Theater at Look Park in Florence, MA on Saturday, September 26th from 1-6:30pm is as easy as 1-2-3 (4)! To win simply:
- SHARE YOUR WELL WISHES TO FAMILIES IN HAITI BELOW (one entry per family) and be sure to tell us your
- FULL NAME (first/last) and where you
- LIVE (TOWN/STATE) must include your town to be eligible.
- ACCURATE EMAIL (we never share your email address).
- We'll randomly draw two winners and will share the results below.
IT'S THAT SIMPLE! — Deadline is Wednesday, 09/22/10 @ 7pm (EST).
If you don't win you should still go! Tickets are $8 for kids, $11 for adults ($7 per vehicle), and net proceeds will be donated to the Haitian People's Support Project. Tickets are available online through Brown Paper Tickets.


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Listings in Arts & Crafts, Collingwood & Area | mycollingwood.
Arts and Crafts, Paintings and Studios in Collingwood and Sourrounds.
Serendipity Candle Factory
Serendipity Candles are the best choice for your home and the environment. Unlike mainstream ones, they contain no harmful ingredients linked to allergy-like symptoms, aggravated asthma or an irritated respiratory tract. Daily Candle Making workshops
20 Balsam Street, Unit 14,
Collingwood, Ontario, South Georgian Bay L9Y4H7
Thornbury Antique Market
Thornbury Antique Market
99 King Street East
Thornbury, Ontario, South Georgian Bay N0H 2P0
Tremont Studios Collingwood
Visiting Tremont Studios is an authentic and energizing experience. Located in the Creative Simcoe Street neighbourhood, on the second floor of a former 1889 hotel – 10 working artists in individual studios.
80 Simcoe St, Collingwood, ON
Second Floor
Collingwood, Ontario, South Georgian Bay L9Y 1H8
Blue Mountain Foundation For The Arts
The Blue Mountain Foundation for the Arts is a non-profit, community Arts organization based in Collingwood, Ontario – 2 hours north of Toronto. BMFA's mission: to inspire excellence in the visual arts through educational and creative opportunities.
65 Simcoe Street
Collingwood, Ontario, South Georgian Bay
Crock a Doodle Studio
Crock A Doodle in Blue is pleased to offer Online To Go Orders delivered safely to your door. Curbside Pick Up & Drop Off is NOW AVAILABLE! Curbside Hours are: Friday 4pm-7pm, Saturday 12pm-4pm, Sunday 10am-1pm.
170 Jozo Weider Blvd.
Loft Gallery Inc.
Loft Gallery Inc. is located in Thornbury, approximately 100 kilometres north of Toronto. We have artists painting onsite at the gallery and are located only a ten-minute drive from Blue Mountain Village.
18 Bruce Street
Thornbury, Ontario, South Georgian Bay N0H 2P0


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Mission Statement:
Residential Life works to provide safe and comfortable living and learning communities. We intentionally design programs, services, and leadership opportunities to foster an environment conducive to achieving academic goals, personal growth, and the development of community.
About Valpo Residential Life:
Our eight residence halls and two apartment complexes are home to 2,000 undergraduate students. Of these residence halls, one houses members of Valpo's six national sororities. All first-year, sophomore, and junior students are required to live in approved University housing.
Residentiality is a key component of the mission of Valparaiso University. The residence halls are central to this effort by providing living and learning experiences that contribute to the growth and development of students while enhancing their overall education at Valpo. Residential Life provides various programs, services, and leadership opportunities, which promote the student learning mission.
Departmental Goals/Learning Outcomes:
The goals of Residential Life are outlined through outcome statements, reflecting what is hoped students will learn through their experience of living in the residence halls. The learning outcomes provide a foundation for staff training, student group advising, hall programming, and other departmental initiatives. The outcomes are grouped into three areas.
Goal: To assist students to grow intellectually, to draw connections between learning in the classroom and in the residence hall, to support students' academic work, and to promote student/faculty interaction.
Goal: To assist students to develop their individual potential, to learn self-management and leadership skills, to develop holistic, healthy lifestyles, and to help guide their faith and spiritual development.
Goal: To assist students to understand the rights and responsibilities of citizenship and their interconnectedness with a larger and diverse society.
Programs and community development opportunities are designed with these three goals in mind. The Residential Life staff, under the direction of the Residential Learning Coordinator, then develop objectives for reaching these goals that focus on the three unique populations that make up our residential communities: The First-Year Experience, The Second-Year Experience, and The Final Years.


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I have two new pieces in the latest edition of Thrive magazine. The first is a feature article on finding childcare for a child with special needs. I'll be honest - if you're not in the market for childcare for a child with special needs, you may find this one a tad dry. But if you ARE in the market for childcare for a child with special needs, I hope you'll find it chock full of helpful information, thanks in large part to the many parents who shared their experiences with me as I put the article together. You can read the final product here.
The second piece is a bit more lighthearted - the result of nearly fourteen years of exposure to television programming geared to the preschool set. I will say, though, that if you're like me and have had just about all you can take of this kind of programming, this column may make your eye start to twitch. You can read it here. But don't say I didn't warn you.


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In the first installment of our Thanksgiving Survival Guide, we told you why turkeys should have fat added to the mix during roasting and gave specific oven temperatures for best results. For Day 2, we're taking these lessons one step further, to ensure crispy skin and moist meat, with buttering, cloaking and barding.
Turkey Roasting Basics, Part 2
Here are three more ways to protect a turkey from the dry, oven heat, which will send you well on your way to roasting the perfect holiday bird.
Buttering beneath the skin is the second technique, and this one actually helps the bird to self-baste. This treatment is a particularly delicious choice for our free-range organic turkeys. For birds up to 16 pounds start with a well-chilled 1- pound roll of our black truffle butter, you may want two rolls if your bird is any bigger. Slice each roll evenly creating approximately 1/4-inch thick discs. Use your fingers to slip between the skin and meat at the neck opening, gently working up to using your entire hand to ease your way carefully along the breast and leg meat, taking care not to puncture the skin. Then place these black truffle butter discs in an even layer over the entire surface created between the skin and the bird; pat the skin back into place, and season generously with a good salt and freshly ground pepper. Start this bird in a preheated 500° degrees F oven, cook for 30 minutes to sear in juices, then reduce the oven temperature to 325° or 350° degrees F for the remainder of the cooking time. The truffle butter will melt into the meat making it moist and flavorful, as well as brown and crisp up the skin, leaving the delicious bits of black truffle just beneath the surface. It's not necessary to baste this bird, but of course, you may if you prefer.
Cloaking with butter-soaked cotton cheesecloth is a technique especially good for a heritage or wild turkey. Fold and trim a sheet of cheesecloth to create four layers large enough to drape and cling to the contours of the entire breast. It's okay to partially cover the drumsticks as well. Stack the four layers together and saturate in a basting mix of melted, unsalted butter and stock or a good, dry white wine; or a basting mix of your choice, and then drape the cloth over the bird.
Brush the entire bird, including through the cloth, with the basting mix. Start this bird in a preheated 450° degrees F oven, cook for 1 hour, basting regularly, and then reduce the oven temperature to 350° degrees F for the remainder of the cooking time. As soon as you have enough accumulated, juice in the pan for basting the whole bird, use it instead of the basting mix. In the last hour of cooking, take the bird out of the oven and remove the cheesecloth, and then return the bird to the oven so that it can brown while it finishes cooking. You should continue to baste about every 20 minutes.
Barding, or covering the bird completely with a thick layer of bacon or salt pork is also a fine, time-honored method to protect the meat from the dry heat. Barding replaces first rubbing the bird with fat, and adds to the pan drippings. If you are interested in watching a video on buttering a bird under the skin or learning more about barding your bird, click here.
1) Put your bird into the oven 'legs first', because ovens are often hotter in the back, and the temperature is more apt to fluctuate in the front due to opening the door for frequent basting. This will help the thighs cook faster, and give you easier access to baste the breast, which is the leanest part of the bird.
2) You can stop basting the bird in the last 30 minutes or so, if you want crispier skin.
3) Never cook a bird at temperatures below 325° degrees F.
Come back tomorrow for Part 3 of Turkey Roasting Basics!


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A re-interpretation of the writings of C.S. Lewis as exemplifying not merely a conservative antimodernism but also a sophisticated postmodern sensibility.
Trade Information: LPOD
Available as: Paperback, PDF
Specifications: 229x153mm (9x6in), 210pp
Published: September 2017
Specifications: 211pp
Published: September 2017
Employing a postmodernist literary approach, Kyoko Yuasa identifies C.S. Lewis both as an antimodernist and as a Christian postmodernist who tells the story of the Gospel to twentieth- and twenty-first-century readers. Lewis is popularly known as an able Christian apologist, talented at explaining Christian beliefs in simple, logical terms. His fictional works, on the other hand, feature expressions that erect ambiguous borders between non-fiction and fiction, an approach similar to those typical in postmodernist literature. While postmodernist literature is full of micronarratives that deconstruct the Great Story, Lewis's fictional world shows the reverse: in his world, micronarratives express the Story that transcends human understanding. Lewis's approach reflects both his opposition to modernist philosophy, which embraces solidified interpretation, and his criticism of modernised Christianity. Here Yuasa brings to the fore Lewis's focus on the history of interpretation and seeks a new model.
Foreword by Bruce L. Edwards
Introduction: Harbinger of Christian Postmodernism
1. Philosopher of Christian Postmodernism
2. Novelist of Christian Postmodernism
3. Pre-Historic Magician Awakens in the Modernist Age
4. Medieval Paradise: East, West, and Beyond
5. Re-Writing Mythology: Greco-Roman and Norse
Kyoko Yuasa is Lecturer of English Literature at Fuji Women's University and Hokkaido Musashi Women's College. She is the Japanese translator of Bruce L. Edwards's A Rhetoric of Reading: C.S. Lewis's Defense of Western Literacy (2007).
Kyoko Yuasa provides a scholarly overview of C.S. Lewis's works, showing how he goes against the grain of modernism and rehabilitates values it has discarded. Based on her wide reading, and a detailed analysis of three of his novels, her argument that C.S. Lewis exemplifies a kind of Christian postmodernism will be helpful in challenging readers to reconsider Lewis in the context of modern thought and culture. John Gillespie, Professor of French Language and Literature, School of Modern Languages, Arts and Humanities Research Institute, Ulster University
Kyoko Yuasa offers a fresh perspective for the twenty-first century on the works of C.S. Lewis. Her study of Lewis the anti-modernist ranges across the breadth of his writings and is both passionate and scholarly. I found her thorough explication of That Hideous Strength, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and Till We Have Faces illuminating as she reveals their depth and richness by probing their roots in pre-Enlightenment literature. Joy Alexander, School of Education, Queen's University, Belfast


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Women: Need another beer? Let one of our friendly (female) event staff get that for you.Gag. Sqoot fairly quickly realized they had walked into a buzzsaw, as lots of people called them on it, and their sponsors started pulling their support. It's rather nice to see that kind of quick, public reaction. Cloudmine's blog post about it particularly impressed me. Squoot issued an apology fairly swiftly, which I quote below:
Sqoot is hosting an API Jam in Boston at the end of March. One of the perks we (not our sponsors) listed on the event page was:This didn't do much for a lot of people, but it got me thinking about apologies in tech in general, since they are actually crucial moments in the interaction between you and your customers/audience. When I worked at Lulu, Bob Young used to say that whenever you screw up, it's actually a tremendous opportunity to win a customer's loyalty by making it right. This applies both to small screwups (a customer's order never made it) and large ones (you did something that made lots of people mad). It strikes me that in this day and age, when the "non-apology" has become so frequent, people may actually not realize when it isn't appropriate to use conditional or evasive language in apologies. It's one thing if you're worried about being sued and can't admit culpability, or if you're someone like Rush Limbaugh, who's presumably concerned about appearing to back down in front of his audience. But if you're actually intent on repairing the damage done to your relationship with your customer or your audience, you need to be able to apologize properly.
"Women: Need another beer? Let one of our friendly (female) event staff get that for you."
While we thought this was a fun, harmless comment poking fun at the fact that hack-a-thons are typically male-dominated, others were offended. That was not our intention and thus we changed it.
We're really sorry,
Avand & Mo
So what are the elements of a good apology?
- I hear you.
- I am truly sorry.
- (semi-optional, depending on what happened) This is what went wrong.
- I am doing x
to make sure this doesn't happen again and y to make it right with you.
- Thank you. I appreciate the feedback.


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Start Date: June 17th
End Date: Aug 2nd
7 week Internship
Chicago Fire Camps and Training are opening their Internship Program for the 2013 summer season.
Based at Toyota Park, the home of the Chicago Fire Soccer Club, the program is designed to give the Intern the experience of working within a professional soccer environment.
Chicago Fire Camps and Training offers a full range of player experiences, from Recreational to Residential Summer Camps, Team and Supplementary training, all of which is powered by Youth Elite Soccer.
The Intern selected will be responsible for a number of different areas including;
• Camp Registration Management
• Camp Equipment Orders and Stock Management
• Registration and Host a Coach Communications
• Social Media Updates
• Camp Administration
• Camp Visits
• Soccer Coaching
This internship program will require the ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, to take on multiple tasks, complete all tasks with professionalism and to be an ambassador for CFCT and YES Soccer.
Interested individuals should email a resume to firstname.lastname@example.com along with a cover letter about why you want to do this.
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So, we all know that we shouldn't text while driving. But in case you thought that checking Google Maps was acceptable, a Californian judge has made it clear that isn't the case.
Despite the fact that many cars have touchscreen satellite navigation systems, a Californian appeals court has ruled that using a mobile phone to view a map while driving is still a big no-no. Indeed, it's the hands-on use of a mobile phone which is the problem, as the ruling explains:
"Because it is undisputed that appellant used his wireless telephone while holding it in his hand as he drove his vehicle, his conduct violated Vehicle Code section 23123, subdivision (a)."
You can read the full ruling below. But in the meantime, it clearly pays not to use Google Maps at the wheel — or, more accurately, not to touch your phone while doing so — especially in California. [California Appeals Court Ruling via All Things D]


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Like the diamond that signifies balance and clarity and abundance, you're the jewel in the crown of life. Your beautiful birthstone radiates the courage and spark by which you take on the world, and like a diamond, you're multi-faceted. You have a fiery passion for the things you believe in and a "can-do" attitude that is second to none. You know who you are and where you stand and that always makes you a force to be reckoned with.
Though some may see you as slightly impulsive, they admire you for the dynamic ways you share the strength of your convictions. They know they can trust you to come to the table with ideas to share, and strategies to make things better, even if you're simply planning a dinner party or an extended vacation.
You have a pioneering spirit, are fiercely independent and strong on one hand, believing that the shortest distance between two points is indeed a straight line, but you're also trusting, even child-like at heart, believing in the best the world has to offer.
So celebrate being wonderful you and keep shining. No matter what life brings your way, you're going to make it into an adventure. Have a fabulous birthday!
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Happy Birthday to BillyPeasley today. 25 years young!! Wish you many more, wish I was 25 again. See you at work sometime in the future. "Dave and Gail"
Well, heee, heee - I don't know Bill - but Happy Birthday - everyone deserves a great day!
happy, happy!
"life is short...make a mess of it!"
25!!! He's still a baby... Happy B-Day
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
Happy Birthday!


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May 4, 2010
After voting for three consecutive days to block financial reform legislation from reaching the floor, Senate Republicans finally relented last week and agreed to allow floor deliberations to begin.
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GOP leaders decided to move forward with debate after Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), the top Republican on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, said he received assurances from Democrats that they were willing to adjust the bill to alleviate concerns that it perpetuates bailouts, the Associated Press (AP) reports.
However, some political pundits believe the decision was made in response to the mounting political pressure applied by Democrats, who have cast Republicans as uncooperative and obstructive.
"It's very difficult for me to comprehend senators, Republican senators, coming to the floor and nitpicking this bill," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). "All the talk of the Republicans, about wanting to do something about this bill before it gets on the floor, is really anti-Senate, and anti-American."
While Republicans disagree with several aspects of the bill, they seem most perturbed with its aggressive and strict consumer protection language. Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), who authored the legislation, indicated his willingness to adjust the bill, but said he will not "weaken consumer protections given the enormous abuses we have seen."
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At the same time, Chinese government officials have thrown up phony fiber quality regulations and proposed sham biotech rules that could allow them to circumvent WTO agreements to purchase U.S. cotton and grain.
So now that the Bush administration has said it will enforce safeguard provisions – which China accepted in the WTO accession agreement – the Chinese government says it intends to raise tariff duties on U.S. exports? Give me a break.
Since the United States dropped its opposition to China's entry into the World Trade Organization, Chinese textile and apparel imports in categories that were no longer under quota have grown from 9 percent to 53 percent of the U.S. market. That happened in less than two years.
But shortly after the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements approved safeguard petitions in three categories of clothing, the Chinese government said it was canceling trade missions to buy U.S. cotton and wheat. More retaliatory actions were threatened.
"I'm shocked and the Chinese people have been surprised and shocked," Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told the Washington Post following the CITA decision announcement. "This unilateral action, involving products worth $400 million to $500 million and without any prior discussion with the Chinese government, seriously wounded the feelings of the Chinese people."
As trade experts have come to expect in dealings with the Chinese, Wen was being disingenuous. The three safeguard categories account for about $500 million of China's exports so far in 2003. But China's total textile and apparel exports have reached $10.65 billion through September.
The latter could pale in comparison with the figures when the remaining quotas on Chinese textile and apparel quotas expire in 2005.
The day before Thanksgiving, Chinese officials said they found a fungus in a soybean shipment from the United States. Trade experts tried to downplay the development, saying the fungus was common to soybeans grown in the United States and China.
But some were concerned the Chinese would use the discovery as an excuse to stop unloading U.S. soybeans as they have done on other occasions.
Analysts also noted that Chinese buyers moved to the sidelines when the U.S. government announced it would enforce the WTO safeguard provisions and waited until New York cotton futures dropped to 67 cents per pound. Then they started buying cotton that would have cost them 75 to 80 cents a few days earlier.
A trade expert said recently that China has become famous for signing agreements and then negotiating them as they are implemented. As long as China can make up the rules as it suits them, no manufacturing job is safe in this country.
U.S. officials are finally waking up to the threat posed by the Chinese. Let's hope it's not too late for what's left of the U.S. textile industry.


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We all know how important carbon and oxygen are in the development of life on Earth. But millions of years ago, there wouldn't have been enough oxygen for animals to exist. What changed?
Between 750 and 580 million years ago, the Earth was almost entirely encased in thick glaciers and ice sheets. When the ice finally started to recede, the oceans were now oxygen-depleted. This made them poor candidates to support life, or at least anything more complex than simple anaerobic bacteria. If complex life was ever going to emerge, then the oceans would need a massive spike in its oxygen levels.
That's where phosphorus enters the picture. Conventional wisdom had long held that phosphorus has been scarce on this planet throughout its history, but new work on ancient minerals has revealed at least one period when the element was plentiful - 750 and 635 million years ago, which is when complex life began to develop.
Researchers say that isn't a coincidence. Phosphorus was probably washed into the oceans by glacial debris, and the element would have jump-started the growth of cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae. That algae creates oxygen as a byproduct of its own metabolic process, which would have slowly raised oxygen levels in the oceans. Given enough time, there was finally enough oxygen for animals and other complex forms of life to develop - all thanks to phosphorus.
Read the full scientific paper via Nature


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Ann Jefferis notched 10 saves against No. 4 Virginia on Sunday afternoon.
The Liberty Lady Flames field hockey team went toe-to-toe with No. 4 Virginia on Sunday afternoon at Liberty Field Hockey Field. Despite holding the Cavaliers below their season average in shots and penalty corners, the Lady Flames fell to the visitors, 2-0, on a pair of second-half goals by Elly Buckley.
The loss drops Liberty's overall record to 5-4 this season. The defeat also ends the Lady Flames six-game home winning streak. Virginia improves its overall mark to 11-1.
The opening 35 minutes of the contest proved to be a defensive struggle, with both teams combining for just seven shots in the opening frame.
After an early penalty corner and shot attempt for the Cavaliers, the Lady Flames answered with a penalty corner of their own just 3:30 into the match. Off of the corner attempt, Liberty's Natalie Barr ripped a shot on cage, but Virginia goalkeeper Jenny Johnstone notched a save to keep the Lady Flames off of the scoreboard.
Liberty did not register another shot until the 34th minute of play. Bethany Barr made a run up the left side of the field and lined the ball toward the goal. Jordan Richardson lunged after the shot, but the ball sailed just beyond her stick wide of the cage.
Defensively, goalkeeper Ann Jefferis and the rest of the Lady Flames defense were up to the challenge against the fourth-ranked Cavaliers. Liberty held the visitors to just five first-half shots, which was half of their season average coming into the contest. Jefferis turned away all five shots, sending the game into the halftime break scoreless.
Liberty's offense picked up momentum early in the second stanza. The Lady Flames notched four shots in the opening 15 minutes of the half, but were unable to push in the game's first score.
In the 58th minute, Virginia's Buckley broke the scoreless tie, notching the first of her two goals of the game. The Cavaliers' leading scorer collected the rebound off of her own shot and tapped it into the cage, giving Virginia the 1-0 advantage.
The Lady Flames came back with a shot by Erin Dombach and another shot by Natalie Barr off of a penalty corner attempt, but could not even the score.
After a timeout with 5:03 remaining in regulation, Liberty pulled Jefferis in favor of an 11th field player. After Jefferis was removed, Virginia was awarded a penalty corner and Buckley ripped it through the Lady Flames' defense and into the back of the goal. Buckley's 15th goal of the season gave the Cavaliers the final 2-0 margin of victory.
For the contest, Virginia held the slight edge in shots, 14-10, while Liberty forced seven penalty corners to the Cavaliers' four.
Jefferis finished the contest with 10 saves in goal for the Lady Flames. Johnstone notched just one save for Virginia en route to her 11th win of the season.
Liberty continues its three-game homestand on Saturday against Davidson. The Lady Flames' NorPac opener against the Wildcats is scheduled to begin at noon at Liberty Field Hockey Field. For a more in-depth look at the Lady Flames' field hockey program, including postgame interviews and video packages, follow the team on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.


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Jewish World Review Nov 17, 2011 / 20 Mar-Cheshvan, 5772
The high cost of More!
By George Will
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Born during what is mistakenly called the debt-ceiling "debacle" last summer, the congressional supercommittee may die without agreeing to a 10-year, $1.2 trillion (at least) deficit-reduction plan. This is not properly labeled a failure. Committee Democrats demanded more revenue; Republicans offered $500 billion; Democrats responded with the one-syllable distillation of liberalism: "More!" So the committee's work has been a clarifying event that presages a larger one — next November's elections.
The messiness surrounding the debt-ceiling increase was what democracy looks like when belatedly confronting big problems. Remember, Barack Obama demanded, until doing so became politically untenable, a "clean" ceiling increase — no supercommittee or other threat to his spending torrent.
The supercommittee should by now have sent its plan to the Congressional Budget Office for "scoring" — calculation of the fiscal consequences of its proposals. The law establishing the committee requires any proposal to be published in legislative language 48 hours before Nov. 23. Not that law has much to do with fiscal matters: The Democratic-controlled Senate has not produced a budget in more than 930 days. This is just one way existing budget law is ignored.
Regarding the supercommittee, Harry Reid's and Obama's interests diverge. Imitation is the sincerest form of politics, and Obama needs congressional failure as he seeks reelection by emulating Harry Truman in 1948, running against a "do-nothing" Congress. Reid, however, wants to remain Senate majority leader. In 2012, Democrats will be defending 23 seats, Republicans only 10. Republicans need to gain just four seats to control the Senate. Reid's members cannot relish running while Obama is denouncing the "Republican Congress." As if the Democratic-controlled Senate has been temporarily disassociated from Congress.
Sensible people who remember the last grand budget bargain will be dry-eyed about not having another now. Although only 21 of the 242 Republicans in the House and eight of 47 Republicans in the Senate were on Capitol Hill in 1990, everyone there should remember the results of that year's budget agreement, wherein President George H.W. Bush jettisoned his "no new taxes" pledge: Taxes increased. So did spending. And the deficit. Economic growth decreased.
Congressional failure to approve a supercommittee proposal supposedly will trigger a $1.2 trillion sequester, half from national security budgets. But the trigger will not be pulled until 2013. No Congress can bind another, and any trigger Congress creates Congress can disable. Obama, who may not be president then, hints that he might veto legislation that alters the sequester. But suppose the sequester occurs. Ignore loose talk about "draconian" spending cuts. Veronique de Rugy of George Mason University's Mercatus Center has a graph (http://bit.ly/uKZAUd) you should see.
It shows two lines. The top one charts spending, 2013-2021, without the sequester; the other shows spending with the sequester. Both lines are ascending. Both show annual spending rising from less than $4 trillion to more than $5 trillion. The space between them is so narrow that it is difficult to see that there are two lines. Without the sequester, spending will increase $1.7 trillion; with the sequester, spending will increase $1.6 trillion. Here are categories of spending:
The supercommittee's difficulties are not shocking. This is shocking: Amid a darkening fiscal crisis, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, whose department has become a huge and incompetent venture capital fund, has not resigned as penance for complicity in the administration's "green graft" and crony capitalism.
Equally incomprehensible: As the supercommittee seems about to leave government's spending curve unbent, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, who should take a high-speed train into retirement, continues his multibillion-dollar mania for California's San Francisco-to-Anaheim high-speed-rail project. In just three years, the projected price of it has tripled to $98.5 billion, and only ludicrous assumptions about passenger traffic present the project as profitable enough to attract private investors, who are supposed to pay most of the costs.
"The first lesson of economics is scarcity," writes economist Thomas Sowell. "There is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics." Next November we will learn whether the second lesson of politics is that adhering to the first lesson is eventually dangerous to incumbents.
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ALAMEDA (AP) — Oakland Raiders defensive end Andre Carter was always taught to do everything on the field at full speed. Recovering from a torn quadriceps injury required a bit more patience.
Nearly 10 months after being carted off the field in Denver, Carter plans to take the restraints off again in his 2012 regular season debut. Oakland coach Dennis Allen said Friday that Carter will be active for Oakland's game this week against the undefeated Atlanta Falcons.
How much the 12th-year pass rush specialist plays is uncertain, though Allen indicated he wouldn't put limitations on Carter.
"It gives us a little bit more veteran leadership," Allen said. "He's a guy that understands how to do it and he's done it at a high level. He's come in and tried to help the whole group. He's been a good addition for us."
Carter was signed on Sept. 26 to help a pass rush that has produced just three sacks in four games. The 33-year-old has 76 career sacks, including 10 last year with New England before he suffered the season-ending leg injury.
The quadriceps muscle in Carter's left leg was torn so badly that he required surgery, followed up by a grueling stretch of rehab.
While the injury scared away many potential suitors, Oakland showed an early interest in Carter and had him in for workouts twice before signing him following their Week 3 win over Pittsburgh.
That victory has been the lone bright spot in the Raiders' first season since Hall of Fame owner Al Davis died in October 2011.
Oakland is off to a 1-3 start for the sixth time in eight seasons, with most of the problems coming on the defensive side. The Raiders are 25th overall, 28th against the pass.
Part of that is due to injuries that have sidelined starting cornerbacks Ron Bartell and Shawntae Spencer. Michael Huff, the team's starting free safety since entering the NFL as a first-round pick in 2006, will make his third consecutive start at cornerback this week.
The Raiders pass rush has also been quiet. Defensive end Matt Shaughnessy leads the defense with 1 1/2 sacks, defensive tackle Richard Seymour has one while Dave Tollefson has 1/2 sack.
Carter, who began his NFL career across the bay with San Francisco, hopes to help change that. He spent two weeks learning Oakland's defense then joined the rest of the Raiders on Wednesday for his first padded practice since the injury.
"I knew the road to recovery was going to be a process," Carter said. "It's something you definitely have to be very patient about. You don't want to rush anything. You don't want to have any major setbacks, so I did the necessary things as far as my recovery."
Carter has been lining up primarily at right defensive end in practice, although he also worked on the left side Friday. The Raiders say they'll use him at both if need be to counter the Falcons' high-paced offense.
"He'll be a rotational player, and really that's how we've handled the defensive line anyway," Allen said. "You have to try to limit the number of plays that they play, especially playing a team like Atlanta that throws the ball like they do. You want to make sure you keep some fresh rushers out there."
Raiders wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey is also expected to play for the first time since suffering a concussion and neck strain after being knocked unconscious following a helmet-to-chin hit by Pittsburgh Steelers safety Ryan Mundy on Sept. 23.
Notes: DE Tommy Kelly returned to practice after injuring his foot Wednesday. Kelly is listed as questionable but is expected to play. ... TE Richard Gordon (hamstring) is out.


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Emperor's New Clothes is a board game designed by GeekDad's Jonathan Liu and sponsored by Game Salute. When I saw what was in the box, I knew it was going to be a different kind of game. Though the pieces might make you think it's a ruse…it's actually far from it. The game is as complicated as you want it to be and rules can change every time the game is played.
I have had the privilege of playing the game a few times. The latest time, at GameStorm 15, my daughter joined me in the game. After a couple of questions about how to play the game, she beat the pants off myself, and three other experienced gamers. She understood the roles being picked, the dice rolls, and the strategy, even as a seven-year-old.
As an avid board gamer myself, I didn't want to spoil the game for you with a bunch of review lingo and "this is exactly what you will get when you back the Kickstarter". Instead, I went straight to the designer and asked some questions that I hope encourage you to try the game for yourself.
GeekMom: How many years have you been an avid board gamer?
Jonathan Liu: I played some board games as a kid, of course, but that sort of dropped off in high school and college. In college I played a lot of SET but I can't really remember playing a lot of other games at the time. It wasn't until I moved to Portland that I met some people who introduced me to games like Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, and Loot that I really dove into games again. So my own board gaming renaissance happened about six or seven years ago.
GM: Do you think this experience of running this Kickstarter campaign is similar to the experiences of others who have kickstarted board games?
JL: Yes and no. The emotional ups and downs of running a Kickstarter campaign, seeing feedback (both positive and negative) about your project, trying to respond to everything in a timely fashion and not having enough hours in the day—I think all of those are pretty common to any project, board games or not.
I suppose there are some games which have big ups and downs in their funding levels, but I think the theme of my game has really brought out the pranksters. The first weekend we had somebody pledge $10,000 and then cancel it after a few days. Just this past weekend we had somebody else drop out—who had apparently pledged $2,500. I don't see all the numbers since the campaign is run through Game Salute and Springboard, so from my perspective I really can't count any chickens. That's nerve-wracking, not knowing how many "real" backers I actually have.
But I suppose part of that is because my project isn't just the board game, but also incorporates a new printing technology and some gaming accessories. So some people may be backing because they actually want to play the game, while others are backing because they want to support the use of the Regulated Operator Optical Screenprinting (ROOS). That's probably less typical in other board game Kickstarter campaigns.
GM: What games inspired the mechanics system used in Emperor's New Clothes?
JL: There are a number of games with hidden roles: BANG!, Citadels, Werewolf/Mafia, The Resistance. I love the psychological aspects of trying to figure out who's who and what their objectives are. I did end up borrowing Citadels' process, where you remove one card first before the first player chooses a role—it's a way to give everyone a choice of role (rather than randomly dealt) but doesn't give the second player too much information about who the first player is.
The die-rolling is obviously Yahtzee-style: you get to roll three times, and collect resources based on that. The action/event cards are from any number of games: things like extra dice, stealing resources, getting extra points, and so forth. It doesn't look like we'll hit the stretch goals for the real-time mechanics, which is too bad, because that's inspired by games like Wok Star and Escape, where you have a specific amount of time to play your turn, making you make decisions really quickly.
GM: Are there going to be any expansions with black backgrounds instead of white? Have there been any experiments with the Regulated Operator Optical Screening to experiment with colors? (grin)
JL: Well, the ROOS really works best on white backgrounds; that's why our T-shirt is the cover art on a white shirt rather than black (despite the preferences of most gamers), because you just really can't see anything once you try printing on a black surface. The ROOS is, of course, all about making the colors show up just as well for color blind players as for non–color blind players. We've simply tweaked it so that they appear invisible to people who are gamer-blind.
GM: How do you respond to other dedicated table-top gamers who have questioned the seriousness of Emperor's New Clothes?
JL: Well, first of all, anyone who is concerned about the seriousness of Emperor's New Clothes is sort of missing the point: it's not meant to be serious. Using the ROOS means that people who take things too seriously won't see anything at all on the cards and board, and they don't have to back it. The people who will enjoy the game are those who can see the game in the video and photos—those are the ones who will enjoy playing it, and it's because they're not so serious about it.
That said, there is a lot of serious thought that went into the design of the game, and that's harder to get across, but that's what the updates are for. If you go back and read the Designer Diary entries, that's where the meat of the project really is. You don't have to read all of that to enjoy the game, just like you don't have to study video game design to enjoy playing on a Wii—but some people (like me) really like to geek out over the back story and details, and I wanted to give people a chance to do that with me.
GM: Calvinball vs. Emperor's New Clothes. Go.
JL: Calvinball is, of course, a much more physical activity and thematically it's pretty chaotic. Anything goes. I think it could make for a really fun game, along the lines of 1,000 Blank White Cards, but of course you'd never get Bill Watterson to license that.
Emperor's New Clothes tells a story and is a lot more structured: the order of role selection, rolling dice, collecting resources, and scoring points happens every round. All of the characters and their abilities are based on the theme, and those are quite static. They interact with each other, but in predictable ways. But there is a sort of emergent behavior that arises from combinations of simple actions and rules that can feel chaotic, but it's controlled chaos. I think Calvinball is a little more unrestrained chaos—but then, I've never had the rules spelled out for me. I suppose for somebody watching a game of Emperor's New Clothes from the outside, it might seem like unrestrained chaos, too.
If you are still questioning if Emperor's New Clothes is a game for your collection, you can check out the rules and the print and play from the Kickstarter page. There is also a video above where you can see how the game is played. I played the playtest version, and the pieces were pretty high quality. The final version promises to be even higher quality. The ROOS is not only an original game idea, it also gives the game the high probability of being played many times since the game is different every time.
If you are interested in Emperor's New Clothes, there is still time to back it on Kickstarter (the campaign ends on April 1, and it is not an April Fools joke). The game ranges from $25 - $70 depending on if you want the four, six, or eight player game. My thanks to Jonathan Liu for taking the time to talk with GeekMom.


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Buckey discusses political lessons
The Dartmouth
May 9, 2011
Based on his experience running for United States Senate in 2008, Dartmouth Medical School professor Jay Buckey presented four lessons he learned about American politics at a lecture on Friday afternoon. Buckey, who laughed in response to one audience member's "Buckey 2012" sign, explained the nature of fundraising in political campaigns and the importance of increased focus on the science and technology industries in U.S. politics.
Buckey — whose primary platform during his 2008 campaign focused on improving state science, technology and engineering programs — withdrew from the primary race after a nine-month race against former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., The Dartmouth previously reported. Shaheen, who currently serves as a U.S. Senator, ultimately won the state seat.
Although the campaign occurred three years ago, Buckey said the experience gave him "special insight" that still applies today regarding the American political system. Buckey said he learned about the importance of fundraising to any campaign's success.


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Due to COVID-10 we have had to postpone the course for 2020. Click here for more information.
FAST-Forward Trial Results
A one-week course of radiotherapy in fewer but larger daily doses was found to be as safe and effective as standard three-week therapy for women following surgery for early stage breast cancer. Trial results now published. Two ICPV members provided the PPI for this key trial. Full details can be found on the ICR Website.
ICPV Brighton Summer School Aug 2019
ICPV was once again hosted by SHORE-C at the University of Sussex. Click here for more info.
San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, 2018
ICPV member Pat Fairbrother attended this event on an Alamo Foundation Scholarship. Click here to read her review.
Gap Analysis in Breast Surgery Published
The 2013 Breast Cancer Campaign gap analysis established breast cancer research priorities without a specific focus on surgical research or the role of surgeons on breast cancer research. This Review aims to identify opportunities and priorities for research in breast surgery to complement the 2013 gap analysis. Click here for more information
ICPV Review 2018
We have at last published a new edition of our review. This was achieved by a grant from Novartis. Click here for more information.
Award for ICPV Member
Many congratulations to ICPV member Margaret Grayson. On 21 April 2018 she received the Iris Colvin Lifetime Achievement Award for Health, presented by the Women's Forum of Northern Ireland. This is very well deserved for her tireless work in furthering cancer research especially in Northern Ireland.
Warwick Clinical Trials
12 members of ICPV attended a residential Clinical Trials Course at the University of Warwick from 17th to 19th April 2018. The course was run by Professor Janet Dunn and covered the different types of studies undertaken; consent; trial design; statistics and bringing a drug to market. One of the highlights of the course was a visit to the West Midlands Surgical Training Centre where delegates had the privilege of seeing real body parts and having basic anatomy explained to them by the team. The delegates would like to thank Professor Janet Dunn for her outstanding enthusiasm and for her generous hospitality.
Open letter calling on Government to prioritise interests of cancer patients in Brexit negotiations
ICPV have come together with 18 other cancer charities to put our names to an open letter to Government. We want Government to prioritise seeking continued alignment with the EU drug licensing
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Underrated Wines: Soave
I run the wine courses at one of the UK's leading culinary academies and recently let slip to the chefs that I'd matched a herb crusted trout recipe with Soave in a recent magazine article. Their pan faces and deafening silence said it all! To be hones...Read more »


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Update, 5/7/12: Charges have been dropped, thanks to Vanderwoude's solid alibi.
Cops have finally made an arrest in their hunt for the "well dressed" groper who allegedly assaulted four different Manhattan-based women in two months: Karl Vanderwoude, 26, a Park Slope resident and staffer at MVision Private Equity Advisers Limited, an international financial firm. Vanderwoude has been charged with forcible touching and unlawful surveillance. But who is the suavely-suited fellow with the Chris Noth brows? We grabbed some screencaps from his Twitter and LinkedIn pages before they started to go offline.
1. Before he worked in finance (as an operations coordinator), he was a public relations/special events coordinator and then an executive assistant at Saks Fifth Avenue. Maybe that explains the exemplary fashion sense?
2. He was a "highly dependable, punctual, thorough and detail oriented" executive/sales coordinator at 60 Thompson Hotels, according to his former boss, Nico Hallwass, who wrote him a praise-filled LinkedIn review last June. "It was a delight working with him and I can highly recommend him to any future employer." We contacted Hallwass but he declined to comment.
3. He likes Boy Cîroc and Blue Ribbon fried chicken.
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I just wanted to let you know how wonderful your park is. My family goes to Holiday World at least once every summer. Any time we have family down from other states we always take them to Holiday World. Your park is the cleanest and has such polite workers. We have always enjoyed our trips there.
We recently went to a theme park this summer in Wisconsin and it makes us appreciate the theme park we have here at home. We have been to ones in Kentucky, Wisconsin and Minnesota and not a one of them has a home atmosphere like Holiday World.
We have also noticed that Holiday World puts safety first for all riders. If one of the rides is broken no one gets to ride it until its fixed. Some of the other parks do not care much for safety.
Just wanted to let you know what a great job I feel that the owners and workers of Holiday World are doing. Please keep up the good work. We will be back again next summer along with our family that's coming down from Minnesota.
Have a Wonderful Summer,
Jeremiah, Tammy, Austin and Jaris H.
P.S. My kids are only 10 and 12 and they compare other parks to Holiday World too and notice the big differences. Great Job!!!